Microcosm (Bartók)

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Mikrokosmos (Hungarian Mikrokozmosz ) is a collection of piano pieces with an educational character by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók in six volumes. It is numbered Sz. 107 in the Szőllősy directory and BB 105 in the László Somfai directory .

Emergence

The pieces were created over the course of many years, so one of the pieces dates back to 1926 and was intended to supplement the cycle of 9 small piano pieces at the beginning . However, Bartók had long had the idea of ​​writing an educational piano cycle. However, he did not begin to finally implement this idea until 1932. At this time he also began teaching his son, and the first two booklets are also dedicated to him. Around 100 pieces were produced in this way by 1937. In 1939 Bartók completed the entire cycle, which comprises a total of 153 pieces.

To the music

The work is a didactic collection, arranged progressively. It begins with easy pieces for beginners and ends with compositions for advanced pianists. According to TA Zieliński, however, it is "a gradual introduction to the modern world of sound, an encyclopedia of modern piano playing and a lively" theoretical treatise "on composition, which illustrates selected problems with regard to scales and harmony as well as rhythm."

Parts of the microcosm were adapted and performed by the Slovak rock group Collegium Musicum from Bratislava in the early 1970s .

literature

  • Jürgen Uhde : Bartók, Mikrokosmos: playing instructions and explanations; an introduction to the work and its pedagogical intentions. On the reassessment of Béla Bartók's microcosm. Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensburg, 1988. ISBN 3-764-92333-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tadeusz A. Zieliński: Bartók . Atlantis Verlag Zurich and Freiburg i. Br., P. 326